Publications:

Refereed Journal Articles:

1.      Afrati, F.N., Li, C., Mitra, P. (Forthcoming)  “Rewriting Queries Using Views in the Presence of Arithmetic Comparisons,” Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), Elsevier.

2.      Lee, D., Kang, J., Mitra, P., Giles, C.L. and On, B-W.  (Forthcoming) “Are Your Citations Clean?: New Scenarios and Challenges in Maintaining Digital Libraries,” [PDF], Communications of the ACM (CACM). 

3.      Snow, D. R., Gahegan, M., Giles, C. L., Hirth, K. G., Milner, G. R., Mitra, P., and Wang, J.Z. (2006) “Cybertools and Archaeology”, [PDF], Science 311: 958-959.

4.      Debnath, S., Mitra, P., Pal, N. and Giles, C. L. (2005) “Automatic Identification of Informative Sections of Webpages”, [PDF], IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, (TKDE), 17(9): 1233-1246.

5.      Mitra, P. and Wiederhold, G. (2002)  “An Algebra for Semantic Interoperability of Information Sources,”  International Journal of Computational Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 1(1).

6.      Decker, S., Mitra, P. and Melnik, S. (2000) “Framework for the Semantic Web: An RDF Tutorial,” [HTML], IEEE Internet Computing, 4(6): 68-73.

Book Chapters:              

7.      Umapathy, K., Paul, S., Purao, S., Bagby, J.W., and Mitra, P. (2007) “Avatars of Participants in Anticipatory Standardization Processes,”  Standards  Edge: Unifiers or Dividers, The Bolin Group.

8.      Mitra, P. and Wiederhold, G. (2003) “An Ontology Composition Algebra,” [PDF], In Staab S. and Studer, R. (Eds.)  Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems,  In series on International Handbooks on Information Systems, Springer Verlag GmbH, XVI(660): 93-114

9.      Mitra P., Wiederhold, G., and Decker, S. (2002) “A Scalable Framework for the Interoperation of Information Sources,” [PS][PDF], In Cruz, I., Decker, S., Euzenat, J. and McGuiness, D. (Eds.) The Emerging Semantic Web, in the Frontiers In Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 75

Refereed Conferences & Symposiums:

2007

10. Zhao, Q., Mitra, P., and Chen B. (2007) “Temporal and Information Flow Based Event Detection from Social Text Streams,” 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI’07), Vancouver, Canada. [acceptance rate:27%]

11. Liu, Y., Bai, K. Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. (2007) “TableRank: A Ranking Algorithm for Table Search and Retrieval,”  22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI’07), Vancouver, Canada.  [acceptance rate:27%]

12. Sun, B., Mitra, P., Giles, L., Zha, H., and Yen, J. (2007) “Topic Segmentation with Shared Topic Detection and Alignment of Multiple Documents,” 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, (SIGIR’07), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [acceptance rate: 86/491=17.52%]

13. Tan, Q., Zhuang, Z., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. (2007) “Efficiently Detecting Webpage Updates Using Samples”, Seventh International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE’07), Como, Italy.

14. Liu Y., Bai, K., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. (2007) “Automatic Table Metadata Extraction and Search in Digital Libraries,” ACM and IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (JCDL’07),  Vancouver, BC, Canada, ACM Press, New York, NY.

15. Sun, B., Tan, Q., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. (2007) “Extraction and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web,” [PDF], The 16th International World Wide Web Conference, (WWW’07), Banff, Alberta, Canada.  [acceptance rate:14%]

16. Tan, Q., Zhuang, Z., Mitra, P., Giles, C.L. (2007) "Designing Efficient Sampling Techniques to Detect Webpage Updates", [PDF],  The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'07), (Poster), Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2007, 2 pages

17. Zhao, Q., Mitra, P., Giles, C.L. (2007) "Image Annotation by Hierarchical Mapping of Features", [PDF], The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'07), (Poster), Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2007, 2 pages

18. Liu, Y., Mitra, P., Giles, C.L. (2007) "Automatic Searching of Tables in Digital Libraries , [PDF], The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'07), (Poster), Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2007, 2 pages

19. Lu, X., Wang, J.Z., Mitra, P., Giles, C.L. (2007) "Deriving Knowledge from Figures for Digital Libraries”, [PDF], The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'07), (Poster), Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2007, 2 pages

20. Bolelli, L., Lu, X., Liu, Y., Jaiswal, A., Bai, K., Councill, I., Mitra, P., Wang, J.Z., Mueller, K., Kubicki, J., Garrison, B., Bandstra J., Giles, C.L. (2007) "ChemXSeer: A Chemistry Web Portal for Scientific Literature and Datasets”, [PDF]," Open Repositories Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2007

21. Zhao, Q., and Mitra, P. (2007) “Event Detection and Visualization for Social Text Streams,” (short paper, 4 pages) International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, (ICWSM’07), Boulder, CO.

22. Ayyagari, P., Mitra, P., Lee, D., Liu, P., Lee, W-C. (2007) “Incremental Adaptation of XPath Access Control Views,” 2007 ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer & Communications Security, (ASIACCS’07), Singapore. [acceptance rate: 18.3%]

2006

23. Bagby, J.W., Purao, S., and Mitra, P. (2006) “Standards Development, Disruptive Innovation and the Nature of Participation: Lock-In, Lock-Out, Holdup,” 34th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy, (TPRC’06), Arlington, VA.

24. Lu, X., Mitra, P., Wang, J.Z., and Giles, C.L. (2006) “Automatic Categorization of Figures in Scientific Documents,” [Download], ACM and IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (JCDL’06), Chapel Hill, NC, ACM Press, New York, NY, 129-138. [acceptance rate: 26.2% ]

25. Liu, Y., Mitra, P., Giles, C.L., and Bai, K. (2006)  “Automatic Extraction of Table Metadata from PDF Documents,” [PDF] , (Poster Paper), ACM and IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (JCDL’06), Chapel Hill, NC, ACM Press, New York, NY, 339-340.

26. Pan, C-C., Mitra, P., Liu, P. (2006) “Semantic Access Control for Information Interoperation,” 11th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT ‘06), Lake Tahoe, CA, ACM Press, New York, NY, 237-246

27. Li, F., Luo, B., Liu, P., Lee, D., Mitra, P., Lee, W-C., Chu, C-H. (2006) “In-Broker Access Control towards Efficient End-to-End Performance of Information Brokerage Systems,” [PDF], IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC), Taichung, Taiwan, 1:252-259  [acceptance rate: 25% ]

28. Ayyagari, P.S., Mitra, P. and Hurson, A. (2006)  “Efficient Object Retrieval from Parallel Air Channels in the Presence of Replicated Objects,” [PDF], The 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06), Nara, Japan.  [acceptance rate:23%]

29. Mitra, P., Pan, C-C., Liu, P., and Atluri, V. (2006)  “Privacy-preserving Semantic Interoperation and Access Control of Heterogeneous Databases,” [PDF] , ACM Symposium on Information, Communcation, and Computer Security (ASIA-CCS), Taiwan. [acceptance rate: 17.2%]   

2005

30. Kang, J., Lee, D., and Mitra, P. (2005) “Identifying Value Mappings for Data Integration: an Unsupervised Approach,” [PDF], Sixth International Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), New York, NY, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  Springer Verlag GmbH, 3806(XXI, 771): 544-551.  [acceptance rate: 21%.]

31. Mitra, P., Noy, N.F. and Jaiswal A. R. (2005) “Ontology Mapping Discovery with Uncertainty,” [PDF], In Gil, Y., Motta, E., Benjamin, V.R., Musen, M.(Eds.) Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Galway, Ireland,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  Springer Verlag GmbH, 3729 (2005): 537-547.  [acceptance rate: 25%]

32. Kang, J., Han, T.S., Lee, D., and Mitra, P. (2005) “Establishing Value Mappings Using Statistical Models and User Feedback,” [PDF], 14th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bremen, Germany, ACM Press, New York, NY, 68-75.  [acceptance rate: 18%.]

33. Mitra, P., Wiederhold, G., and Decker, S. (2005) “Dealing with Semantic Interoperation of Data,” Second IEEE International Symposium on Data Interoperability, Sardinia, Italy, IEEE Computer Society Press, 134-145.

34. On, B-W., Lee, D., Kang, J., and Mitra, P. (2005) “Comparative Study of Name Disambiguation Problem using a Scalable Blocking-based Framework,” [PDF],, ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2005), Denver, Colorado, ACM Press, New York, NY, 434: 344-353.

35. Debnath, S., Mitra, P., and Giles, C. L. (2005) “Identifying Content Blocks from Web Documents,”  15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2005), In  Hacid, M-S., Murray, N.V., Ras, Z.W. and Tsumoto S. (Eds.), Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Saratoga Springs, NY, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag GmbH, 3488: 285-293.

36. Debnath, S., Mitra, P., and Giles, C.L. (2005) “Finding the Base Time-line of a News Article,” In Russell, I. and Markov, Z. (Eds.), 18th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2005),  Clearwater Beach, FL, AAAI Press, 142-147.

37. Debnath, S., Mitra, P., and Giles, C. L. (2005) “Automatic Extraction of Informative Blocks from Webpages,” 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005), Special Track on Web Technologies and Applications,  Santa Fe, New Mexico, ACM Press, New York, NY, 1722-1726.

2004

38. Afrati, F.,  Li, C. and Mitra, P. (2004) “On Containment of Conjunctive Queries with Arithmetic Comparisons,” [PDF], In Bertino, E.; Christodoulakis, S.; Plexousakis, D.; Vassilis, C.; Koubarakis, M.; Böhm, K.; Ferrari, E. (Eds.), Advances in Database Technology- (EDBT 2004), 9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag GmbH, 2992 (XVIII, 877): 459-476. [acceptance rate:14%]

2002

39. Afrati, F., Li, C. and Mitra, P. (2002) “Answering Queries Using Views with Arithmetic Comparisons,” [PS][PDF], 21st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Madison, WI, ACM Press, New York, NY, 209-220.  [acceptance rate: 22%]

2001

40. Mitra, P. and Wiederhold, G. (2001) “An Algebra for Semantic Interoperability of Information Sources,” [PS] [PDF], 2nd. IEEE Symposium  on BioInformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), Bethesda, MD, IEEE Computer Society Press, 174-182.

41. Mitra, P., Wiederhold, G., and Decker, S. (2001) “A Scalable Framework for Interoperation of Information Sources,” [PDF], In Cruz, I.F., Decker, S., Euzenat, J.,  McGuinness, D.L., (Eds.), 1st International Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), Stanford, CA, 317-329.

42. P. Mitra. (2001)  “An Algorithm for Answering Queries Efficiently Using Views,” [PDF ], In Orlowska, M.E., Roddick, J.F., 12th. Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2001), Australian Computer Science Communications, Gold Coast, Qld., Australia, IEEE Computer Society Press, 23(2): 99-106.

2000

43. Decker, S.,  Jannink, J., Melnik, S., Mitra, P., Staab, S.,  Studer, R., and Wiederhold, G. (2000)  “An Information Food Chain for Advanced Applications on the WWW,” In Borbinha, J.L.; Baker, T., (Eds.), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 4th European Conference, (ECDL 2000), Lisbon, Portugal, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag GmbH, 1923: 490-493.

44. Mitra, P., Kersten, M., and Wiederhold, G. (2000) “A Graph-Oriented Model for Articulation of Ontology Interdependencies,” [PDF], In Zaniolo, C., Lockemann, P.C., Scholl, M.H., Grust, T. (Eds.): Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2000, 7th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Konstanz, Germany, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag GmbH, 1777  [acceptance rate:16.7%]

1999

45. Mitra, P.,  Wiederhold, G., and Jannink, J. (1999)  “Semi-automatic Integration of Knowledge Sources,” [PS], 2nd International Conf. on Information Fusion (FUSION), Sunnyvale, CA, Omnipress, 572-581.

1994

46. Dasgupta, P., Mitra, P., and Chakraborty, P.P. (1994) “Multiobjective Search in VLSI Design,” 7th International Symposium on VLSI Design (VLSI), Calcutta, India, IEEE Computer Society Press, 395-400.

User Group Meeting:

47. Mitra, P., Payne, D., Shuler, L., van de Geijn, R. and Watts, J. (1995) “Fast Collective Communication Libraries, Please,” [PS], Intel Supercomputing Users' Group Meeting.

Refereed Workshops:                                                               

48. Jaiswal, A.R., Giles, C.L., Mitra, P., Wang, J.Z. (2006) “An Architecture for Creating Collaborative Scientific Data Sharing Infrastructures”, Eighth ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM’06), Arlington, VA, ACM Press, New York, NY, 75-82. [acceptance rate:21.5%]

49. Zhuang, Z., Mitra, P., Jaiswal, A.R. (2005) “Corpus-based Web Services Matchmaking,”  Workshop on Exploring Planning and Scheduling for Web Services, Grid and Autonomic Computing held in conjunction with The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, AAAI Press.

50. Mitra, P., Liu, P., Pan, C-C. (2005) “Privacy-preserving Ontology Mapping,” [PDF], C&O: First International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications, Poster Session held in conjunction with The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, AAAI Press. [poster 4 pages]

51. Mitra, P., Noy, N.F., and Jaiswal, A.R. (2004) “OMEN: A Probabilistic Ontology-Mapping Tool,” [PDF], In Bouquet, P., and Serafini, L. (Eds.) Working Notes of the ISCW-04 Workshop on Meaning Coordination and Negotiation, held in conjunction with the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, 2004, 71-83.

52. Mitra, P., and Wiederhold, G.  (2002) “An Algebra for the Composition of Ontologies,”  Workshop on Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web at the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002), Lyon, France, 43-50. [contribution, 90%]

53. Mitra, P., and Wiederhold, G. (2002) “Resolving Terminological Heterogeneity in Ontologies,”  Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability at the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002), Lyon France, 45-50. [contribution, 90%]

54. Jannink, J., Mitra, P., Pichai, S., Wiederhold, G., Neuhold, E., and Studer, R. (1999) “An Algebra for Semantic Interoperation of Seminstructured Data,” [PDF], IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX), IEEE Computer Society Press, 77-84.